Go web framework privacy ratings

Web and API frameworks and routers for Go.

12 Go web frameworks are rated against 4 public criteria, and 12 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 2 with a known jurisdiction, 0 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 1 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.

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Go web frameworks privacy ratings, sorted by pick and then by grade
Name	Grade	Score	Data	Jurisdiction	Open source	No trackers or telemetry	No ads or data sales	Independent audit
Beego Full-stack web framework for Go with an MVC structure, ORM, caching, logging and the bee command-line tool for scaffolding.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Buffalo Web development toolkit for Go that generates projects with routing, templates, the Pop database layer, migrations and a front-end asset pipeline.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Chi Lightweight, composable router for building HTTP services in Go, built on the standard net/http package.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Fiber Express-inspired web framework for Go built on the Fasthttp HTTP engine, with routing, middleware and templating.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Gin HTTP web framework for Go with a radix-tree router, middleware support, request binding and validation.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Gorilla Mux HTTP request router for Go from the Gorilla web toolkit that matches routes by path, host, method, headers and query values, built on net/http.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Iris Web framework for Go with routing, an MVC layer, sessions, WebSockets and view templating.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Templ HTML templating language for Go that compiles components into type-safe Go code, with a command-line generator and a language server for editors.	Grade B	80	100%	–	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Echo Minimalist HTTP web framework for Go with an optimized router, middleware, data binding and rendering.	Grade D	50	100%	–	Yes	No	Yes	No
Hertz HTTP framework for Go from ByteDance's CloudWeGo project, designed for high-performance microservices, with the hz code generator.	Grade D	50	100%	China Outside Eyes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Revel Full-stack web framework for Go with routing, templates, hot code reload and a built-in test runner. No longer maintained.	Grade D	50	100%	–	Yes	No	Yes	No
Encore Backend framework for Go and TypeScript that declares APIs and infrastructure such as databases, queues and cron jobs in code, with a local development dashboard.	Grade D	40	100%	Sweden Fourteen Eyes	Yes	No	Partial	No

Questions

What is the most private option among Go web frameworks?

No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.

How are Go web frameworks rated?

Each entry answers 4 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales and independent audit. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.

Does jurisdiction matter?

Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.